…he city’s mayor to name a chief executive officer of the public schools and appoint a nine-member board of education. The legislation called for a referendum on mayoral control after four years. When the vote came on November 5, 2002, more than 70 percent of the city’s electorate said yes to the perpetuation of the untraditional governance model that has been essential ever since to the initiation of substantive efforts to improve Cleveland’s…
…ve children’s reading skills, but also provides older individuals with meaningful volunteer activities, which have been shown to improve physical and mental health. Building on the concept of providing opportunities for seniors to give back to their communities, the Cleveland Foundation announced in 2013 that it will take a lead role in developing an “encore career” program for Greater Cleveland. The foundation will consult with Encore.org, a…
…t initiative, and MyCom, a community-wide mobilization campaign to connect young people with enriching experiences and caring adults. The Treu-Mart Youth Development Fellowship, a professional development program initiated in 2004 by the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and now housed at the university’s Weatherhead School of Management, strengthens the community’s capacity to produce positive…
…ought assistance from the Cleveland Foundation, which recognized the challenge as an opportunity to expand public access to the Cuyahoga River. The foundation connected CRF with the Trust for Public Land (TPL), a conservancy organization. With the support of a $250,000 foundation grant awarded in 2010 on the condition the monies be applied toward the creation of a public green space, CRF and TPL were able to raise the funds needed to purchase…
…each year about 1,000 arts and entertainment events that draw a combined audience of one million. In the 1990s, the Cleveland Foundation helped PSF save a fourth theater, the Allen, from demolition and contributed $750,000 in 2011 toward the theater’s remodeling into a state-of-the-art home for the Cleveland Play House. Marshaling broad-based community support, Great Lakes Theater successfully completed a $19 million campaign that renovated the…
…Homer C. Wadsworth, Director of the Cleveland Foundation 1974 to 1983 and A Foundation for Growth: The Dramatic Work of Steven A. Minter and the Cleveland Foundation. This site, which provides an overview of the foundation’s 100-year-old partnership with Greater Cleveland, is intended to be a living document. If you have collaborated with, or been touched by, the Cleveland Foundation, we would like to hear from you. Please contact us with…
…he arts. He is a trustee of the Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation and the Cleveland Initiative for Education. He served as vice chair of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and trustee of United Way of Greater Cleveland, National Ballet of Canada and Hathaway Brown School. Bennett holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a juris doctor degree from Harvard University Law School….
…ing. He has been a partner at the law firm of Ulmer & Berne, a deputy administrator for Cuyahoga County, and assistant director of the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging. His civic service includes posts on committees or boards for a variety of organizations, including United Way, Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Adolescent Health and Meridia Health System. Rowan earned his doctor of ministry degree from Ashland…
…advantaged youth who reside in the region, offering them two paths to becoming a primary care physician. They can complete their undergraduate work at CSU and then qualify for early admission to NEOMED, where they can earn a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. For students who already have college degrees, there is a post-baccalaureate/M.D. option. The partner institutions received a second foundation grant of $1.5 million in 2012 to implement the…
…cord of public service by the Cleveland chapter of the Urban League in 1966, he and his wife, Ruth, decided to partner with the Cleveland Foundation to award a college scholarship annually to a graduating Cleveland Municipal School District student who had performed laudable community service. Since its establishment with the Clements’ initial gift of $10,000, the Inez and Harry Clement Award Fund (named in honor of the doctor’s parents) has…